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So tonight I ate dinner in the dark as the lights in my house were turned off for earth hour. I had originally planned to be in the city to take photos of the dark buildings, but that didn’t pan out. Instead, I looked at the city from afar as I used the window sill of the window of my bedroom as a table, and ate my thai food by the orange glow of the streetlights. The city didn’t look much darker than normal, but it was nice to see all the people going for a night time stroll over to sydney park, and the punks all heading over to fire twirl in the dark.

Afterwards, when the lights came back on, I spent two hours cleaning up my house in a whirlwind of putting clothes away, disposing of masses of paper (into the recycling bin of course) and taking out our normal recylcing stuff to the bins. This ment four trips back and forth down the stairs to our bins, as well as en extra trip for the non-recyclable waste. Then I replaced a burnt out light globe with an energy efficient one!

So after my tidying rampage (which didn’t include the kitchen benches or the coffee table but did include the bathroom) I sat down to watch a little tv. I got to see the end of RockWiz (which shits all over spicks and specks) and got to see Lior and Serena Ryder sing Heart of Gold, which was incredible. I’ve never loved that song til now, they have amazing voices. So I highly recommend both Serena Ryder and Lior.

And then I went scrounging around the internet and found this awesome pic of diode sex on BoingBoing. It’s awesome.

For the past few weeks I’ve been tossing up whether to buy a car or not. I keep changing my mind back and forth between the two options, and think I’m going to for-go the car buying opportunity for the time being. Reasons for this include; the excellent job interview I had on wednesday, which if successful would mean a pay cut but working in the city and much less commuting; the cost of loan repayments plus the recurring costs of insurance, rego, maintainence and petrol; lack of place to park; and the realistic expectation that while a car would be useful, I wouldn’t use it terribly often, and might start using it for trips that I would normally walk at the moment.

Of course, If I don’t get this job, many of the reasons to not get a car would need to be re-evaluated, and I would probably lean more towards getting one. hmm…

So it seems we’re stuck with same Labor government in NSW as the last 12 years. Oh well. Sure everyone, including the opposition leader, fully expected it, but I can’t help feeling a smidge disappointed with the whole election. And not because the Libs didn’t win. *Shudder* That would have been terrible. But I was hoping for a few more upsets. Like a Greens win in the seat of marrickville*. Or a bigger swing away from Joe Tripodi in my old electorate of fairfield, a swing larger than the state wide swing of 5% away from the Labor. A bigger swing towards the Greens in my new electorate of Heffron. Or a bigger swing to the Greens on a state wide basis (I was hoping for 4%, i got about .7%). But nope. Nothing. Nada. It seems that when people are disaffected with the current government, but don’t want to move right, they’d rather stick to the same old same old then go a bit left. Shame NSW, you got what you deserve.

*Oh marrickville, you taunt me with your leftness. I watch you from my balcony, sitting there across the railway. I see you toy with the idea of a Greens candidate in the Legislative Council. I know the way you flirt with radical progressiveness. Oh marrickville you tease, you hussy of an electorate, how I long to be within you!

Tonight I walked from my place in St Peters to my friend’s place in Erskineville. Then we walked to north King St in Newtown, then up to Sydney Uni, then through the campus to the main quad, and down through Vic park to Glebe Point Road. Then we walked up Glebe Point Road to Bridge Road, and down Bridge Road to the Tram stop near Black Wattle Bay. Then we hoped the Tram to Haymarket, where we stopped for ice cream. Then we walked up Dixon St through the night markets, across to George St and down to Railway Square. From there we went down Regent St to Redfern Station, through the station to the Australian Technology Park to Erskinville Station via Alexandria. From the station back to my friend’s place, and then I walked home to St Peters. It was a muchly good walk, although we somehow didn’t get that coffee we originally went out for.

Tomorrow is voting. I like voting. 

I have to say, although I decided a few weeks ago that I’m just not that into film, I nonetheless love V for Vendetta. I think its a beautifully shot film. Unfortunately I’m not as articulate going on about movies I do like as much as ones I don’t like. Suffice to say, I watched it again just today.

I got accussed of saying something about somebody the other day. I didn’t do what I was accused of (and I’ll happily take ownership of the much worse things i’ve said in the past, so there’s really no reason for me to be pretending to be innocent if i’m not), but the person who accused me of saying what he thinks I said didn’t believe me when I said I didn’t say it. Fine, I don’t really care what he thinks of me anyway, but unfortunately I do care about what the few mutual friends we have think of me. And with him saying I said this stuff, and me not saying anything, cuz, like, i didn’t, and i totally don’t want to get into that whole sort of unprovable arguement, I’ve been left with this oddly distastful feeling about the whole thing. I think I’m gonna let the thing blow over, as the whole situation is incredibly tedious, and it would be entirely arduous to try and correct the impression a few people have over one tiny thing someone else thinks I said about him. And really, doesn’t the circuitous way I’ve written about this to avoid naming names really show how highschool the whole situation is? Yawn.